About This Issue

] About This Issue W e are very pleased to publish an issue on the Social Sciences, a topic unexplored in journals of religious history. Though we have published theme issues on theology, fiction, regionalism, ethnicity and race, this is our first issue on the relationships between sociology, psychology, politics and American Catholic life and thought. It is particularly gratifying to publish articles of wide-ranging interest: biographical studies and an autobiographical study as well as analyses of men and women practitioners and scholars in each of the areas of the social sciences. We are of course very grateful to the contributors to this issue. William D. Dinges is professor of religious studies at The Catholic University of America and is an associate editor of our journal. Andrew Greeley is professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the author of well over one-hundred books on sociology and fiction. Bryan T. Froehle is professor of sociology at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., is professor of psychology at Loyola College in Maryland. Gene Halus is assistant professor of politics at Immaculata University near Philadelphia. Amy Koehlinger is professor of religious studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Nicholas Rademacher is assistant professor of religious studies at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Christopher J. Kauffman ...